Tony & George -- Too Little and Too Late
I have just watched the Blair/Bush press conference. They have a plan -- presumably hatched up while Blair was en route from London to Washington:
1) Condi back to Beirut and Jerusalem -- may she not be blown away by some of the enraged in either capital.
2) UN Security Council to meet Monday to arrange an international force to police Southern Lebanon -- are they kidding? I would count out Canada, Austria, China, Finland -- and Norway has already said no way. All this assuming that Condi found willing takers in her weekend visits?
3) Resolution for cease fire -- between whom? Hezbollah is not included in Condi's weekend plans and one doubts that Israel will welcome rockets continuing to arrive until volunteer uniformed martyrs are found to inhabit no man's land.
Needless to say, what we are seeing here is the folie a deux (a condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as the same delusional beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously in two) of two wannabe empire builders -- one beset by dreams of past Victorian era glory and the other by hopes of unlimited free enterprise domination of the globe (particularly its oil and natural gas supplies) a la the robber barons of old. So much for pious platitudes while people are dying.
For the record I am one American disgusted with the two of them and the pols who play along. The peoples of the Middle East (and we) deserve far better.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
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1) Condi back to Beirut and Jerusalem -- may she not be blown away by some of the enraged in either capital.
2) UN Security Council to meet Monday to arrange an international force to police Southern Lebanon -- are they kidding? I would count out Canada, Austria, China, Finland -- and Norway has already said no way. All this assuming that Condi found willing takers in her weekend visits?
3) Resolution for cease fire -- between whom? Hezbollah is not included in Condi's weekend plans and one doubts that Israel will welcome rockets continuing to arrive until volunteer uniformed martyrs are found to inhabit no man's land.
Needless to say, what we are seeing here is the folie a deux (a condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as the same delusional beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously in two) of two wannabe empire builders -- one beset by dreams of past Victorian era glory and the other by hopes of unlimited free enterprise domination of the globe (particularly its oil and natural gas supplies) a la the robber barons of old. So much for pious platitudes while people are dying.
For the record I am one American disgusted with the two of them and the pols who play along. The peoples of the Middle East (and we) deserve far better.
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Israel_Palestine
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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